Merced News

The cost for May's commencement at the University of California at Merced - with a keynote address by first lady Michelle Obama - finally has been tallied: $1,047,338.82. Private contributions of more than $185,000 added to $500,000 in interest on a private endowment fund, managed by the UC Office of the President, have helped offset the cost.

The total cost for last month's commencement ceremony at UC Merced has finally been tallied: $1,047,338.82. Private contributions of more than $185,000 added to $500,000 in unrestricted interest earnings on a private endowment fund, managed by the UC Office of the President, have helped offset the cost of the event.

U.C. Merced employees are voicing their concerns about possible pay cuts and furloughs to deal with a lack of state funding.

A suspect has been named in the 1998 unsolved killing of a 28-year-old man at the Merced National Wildlife Refuge.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Kaaren Morgner teaches fifth grade at St. Paul Lutheran, alongside Brenda Mognis, a teacher battling chronic myelogenous leukemia.

Wednesday was supposed to be the happiest day of Manuel Victor Guzman's life. It still may be.

By the first Monday in July, Merced planning officials should have the final report that chronicles how the proposed Wal-Mart distribution center will change the city.

Merced County authorities are searching for a convicted burglar who escaped jail Wednesday.

A Merced man escaped from jail Wednesday on pass to get married, but instead he abandons his wife to be at the ceremony.Twenty-nine-year-old Manuel Victor Guzman was given a four hour pass from Merced Main Jail so he could get married.

The two cases of probable swine flu reported in Merced County earlier this month have been confirmed, Merced County public health officials said Friday.

Two men are in police custody after an off-duty officer was shot at early Friday morning, according to the Merced Police Department.

Two suspected gang members have been charged with attempted murder in connection with a Friday morning shooting involving an off-duty Merced police officer.

A Merced Police officer had no choice but to shoot at a reckless driver who was about to run him over in a showdown near Farmdale Elementary School last night, officials said.

Two men are in police custody after an off-duty officer was shot at early Friday morning, according to the Merced Police Department.

Two men are under arrest in the North Valley after police say they shot at an off-duty officer.

As an East Coast transplant, I expected every summer in Merced County to be idyllic.

Plan on picketers at this week's meeting of an air quality board in Fresno, following the controversial comments of one board member.

An 18-year-old man was injured late Friday after he was shot In the 1200 block of 12th Place in South Merced.

Merced leaders on Monday will decide whether to spend about $500,000 of Measure C revenue on streets or safety.

A man was flown to the hospital Thursday after his truck slipped on a fuel spill and crashed into a guardrail on southbound Highway 99, near Yosemite Park Way, the California Highway Patrol reported.